A2K Speakers and Moderators

Frederick M. Abbott

Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law, Florida State University

Frederick Abbott is Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law at the Florida State University College of Law. He is Rapporteur for the Committee on International Trade Law of the International Law Association, on the Panel of Experts of UNCTAD’s Program on the Settlement of Disputes in International Trade, Investment and Intellectual Property, consultant to the UNCTAD/ICTSD Project on TRIPS and Development, to the World Bank and to the Quaker United Nations Office (Geneva). He has served as consultant to the WHO Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy. Professor Abbott serves as arbitrator for the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford). He is former Chair of the American Society of Law Intellectual Property Interest Group and the International Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools, and former Director of the American Society of International Law Research Project on Human Rights and International Trade. He is Chair of the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee of the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics. Professor Abbott is the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of international economic law, international intellectual property rights law, and public international law. His books include UNCTAD-ICTSD Resource Book on TRIPS and Development (Principal Consultant with Carlos Correa)(2005), The International Intellectual Property System: Commentary and Materials (with Thomas Cottier and Francis Gurry) (1999), China in the World Trading System: Defining the Principles of Engagement (1998), Public Policy and Global Technological Integration (1997), and Law and Policy of Regional Integration (1995). His book on treaty-making, Parliamentary Participation in the Making and Operation of Treaties, edited with Stefan Riesenfeld, was awarded the American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit. He has served as Visiting Professor at University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, as Jean Monnet Professor at the University of Bonn, Visiting Professor and Weickert Fellow at the University of Berne, Visiting Professor at University of California, Hastings College of the Law and at Vanderbilt Law School, and was Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Professor Abbott regularly teaches on the faculties of the World Trade Institute in Berne and the Central European University - World Law Institute in Budapest. Professor Abbott holds BA and LLM degrees from UC Berkeley, and a JD from Yale Law School.

Panel: Access to Medicines: India and TRIPS

Catherine N. Adeya-Weya

Independent ICT Consultant - Kenya

Dr Catherine Adeya-Weya is an Information Scientist with knowledge and skills in information development issues, which include social, political and economic impacts and potential of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) particularly in Africa but in the developing world in general. She worked as a Research Fellow for the United Nations University/Institute of New Technologies (UNU/INTECH) in Maastricht (Holland) until June 2002. Currently, she is an Independent Consultant — on ‘ICTs and Development’— based in Kenya but travels widely in Africa. She is also the Coordinator of KICTANet (Kenya ICT Action Network). She has consulted with international organizations (such as International Development Research Centre, IDRC), governments (such as, Kenya) and universities &research institutions. She serves on the Editorial Board for ‘Journal of Perspectives on Global Development & Technology’ (Brill Academic Publishers). Some of the results of her work have already been disseminated in various fora including books, journals, conferences and workshops. Catherine received a BSc in Information Sciences from Kenya and MPhil/PhD degrees in ‘Information and Development’ from Edinburgh, Scotland.

Panel: Wireless ICTs and Access to Knowledge

Amos Anyimadu

Scientific Coordinator of the Technology Assessment Project, University of Ghana and Technical University of Denmark

Dr. Amos Anyimadu is a Political Scientist. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory and Institutions from Flinders University and B.A. (First Class) in Political Science with Sociology from the University of Ghana. He has been studying policy processes in Developing Countries and the epistemology of science for some time now. He is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana. He is also the Coordinator in Ghana of the Technology Assessment Project, a research link arrangement between the University of Ghana and Technical University of Denmark (http://TapLegon.cti.dtu.dk); Founder and Convenor of AfricaTalks.org an on line and off line facility for the discussion of African and Global Development; and, in an adjunct capacity, a Fellow of African Security Dialogue and Research a Security Studies, including the connections between Digital Trust and Human Security, think tank (www.AfricanSecurity.org).Dr. Anyimadu's work on telematics has recently centred on Mobile Telephony and Rural Telematics. He led the Technology Assessment Project's campaign for evidence-based policy for Universal Access in Ghana which begun in Abura Dunkwa, Central Region, Ghana, on July 14, 2004 and ended with a World Bank supported global video conference on July 14, 2005. The campaign counts many practical benefits, including the establishment of a mobile telephony cell site in Moree fishing village in the Central Region of Ghana. The campaign has become institutionalised as the T.A.P. Mobile Ghana Conference. The first session of Mobile Ghana was held at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence and was attended by about 200 leaders in Ghana's technology and policy sectors. The lead speakers at the first session of the T.A.P. Mobile Ghana Conference were Richard Ling, who gave a Ghanaian flavour to his globally significant book The Mobile Connection and Professor Kwasi Yankah, Acting Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, who gave a mould-breaking presentation of The Culture of Mobile Phones in Ghana. The second session of the T.A.P. Mobile Ghana Conference, on "Investment, Talent and Rural Telematics" takes place next August. Dr. Anyimadu's current telematics research centres on the mobile telephony of fishers in Ghana and policy and regulation of wireless spectrum.

Panel: Wireless ICTs and Access to Knowledge

Jack Balkin

Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment and Director, Information Society Project, Yale Law School

Professor Balkin received his Ph.D in philosophy from Cambridge University, and his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University. He served as a clerk for Judge Carolyn D. King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and practiced as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine, and Moore in New York City before entering the legal academy. He has been a member of the law faculties at the University of Texas and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a visiting professor at Harvard University, New York University, the Buchman Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and the University of London. Professor Balkin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He writes political and legal commentary at the weblog Balkinization. He has also written widely on legal issues for such publications as the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Hartford Courant, Washington Monthly, The New Republic Online, and Slate. Professor Balkin is the founder and director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and the new information technologies. His work ranges over many different fields, including cultural evolution, telecommunications and Internet law, reproductive rights, freedom of speech, rhetoric, jurisprudence and legal reasoning, the theory of ideology, and musical and legal interpretation. His books include Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, The Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life, Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking (5th ed., with Brest, Levinson, Amar and Siegel), Legal Canons (with Sanford Levinson), What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, and What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said.

Panel: Framing Access to Knowledge

Karine Barzilai-Nahon

University of Washington, The Information School

Dr. Karine Barzilai-Nahon joined the University of Washington Information School faculty as an assistant professor in September 2004. Dr. Barzilai-Nahon’s research interests lie in information policy and in the social aspects of the management of information systems. More specifically she studies information control and gatekeeping, self-regulation mechanisms in cyberspace and particularly in virtual communities, and "Digital Divide" measurement tools. Karine teaches courses in information policy and ethics. She holds a PhD and MSc in Management of Information Systems (2004) from Tel-Aviv University, and BA in Computer Science and Political Science. Currently, she chairs the virtual communities minitrack and the digital divide minitrack at HICSS. She was the coordinator and a member of the Communication and Informatics Committee for UNESCO in Israel, and academically directed the Israeli delegation and participated as a representative in the UN summit of WSIS (World Summit of Information Society). Formerly she held senior positions in Research and Development in the hi-tech industry.

Panel: Measuring Access to Knowledge

Yochai Benkler

Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Yochai Benkler is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the digital environment. His particular focus has been on the neglected role of commons-based approaches towards management of resources in the digitally networked environment. He has written about the economics and political theory of rules governing telecommunications infrastructure, with a special emphasis on wireless communications, rules governing private control over information, in particular intellectual property, and of relevant aspects of U.S. constitutional law. His book The Weatlh of Networks is now available from Yale University Press.

Panel: Framing Access to Knowledge

Christina Birdie

Librarian, Indian Institute of Astrophysics

Dr. Christina Birdie is a librarian with professional qualifications in Library and Information Science from reputed Library Schools in India. She has vast experience and skills of a special librarian, gained from working in the Indian Institute of Astrophysics Library at Bangalore for more than two decades. The sound library management training and communication skills she has received during her graduate programs have helped her to develop the present library at Indian Institute of Astrophysics as one of the state-of-the art libraries in the country. She is also an active member of the national and International library associations and contributed to various library activities within the country and outside. SLA has recognized her contributions to the SLA in general and to the PAM division in particular by conferring her SLA awards namely, the International Membership to the PAM division of SLA and The International Sci-Tech Librarian of the year 1999. She was also awarded the Diversity Leadership Development Award in the year 2003 for her leadership qualities within the profession and the association. Dr. Christina has been nominated as one of the directors of the Asian Chapter of SLA for the term 2005-2007. She is also a member of the Standing committee of IFLA Sci-Tech division for the year 2005-2007. She has attended many national and international conferences in library & information science and published many papers in International journals and conference proceedings. Her current interests include the issues related to Consortia of libraries in India, in particular issues related to FORSA (Forum for Resource sharing in Astronomy), and various licensing models and archiving of e-journals. She is keen to develop the awareness of copyright issues and their importance among the libraries and librarians in India by compiling guidelines in both print and digital environment. As a mentor to library school graduates, she enjoys her responsibility to train them in her library by guiding them at various administrative and technical activities. Recently she has pioneered the Open Access movement within the organization and established an OA Repository of the Institute successfully.

Panel: The Role of Libraries in A2K

Michael Birnhack

University of Haifa, Faculty of Law

Michael D. Birnhack is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, and co-director of the Haifa Center of Law & Technology. His research interests are law and technology, intellectual property and privacy law. He published extensively in the US, UK, Europe and Israel on these issues and especially the research focuses on the relationship between copyright law and free speech. Michael is a member of the Israeli Public Council for the Protection of Privacy, served in a Ministry of Justice committee on data protection, and advised several public agencies on matters of online journalistic ethics, web-access in public libraries, and patent law.

Panel: DRM & Globalization

Geoffrey Bowker

Director, Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University

I work in the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University. My main current research interests are in the field of classification and standardization: in particular asking how these play into the development of scientific cyberinfrastructure. My forthcoming book (December 2K5) Memory Practices in the Sciences looks at information infrstructures and storytelling in a science over the past two hundred years. It looks at geology in the 1830s, cybernetics in the 1950s and environmental sciences today - weaving together their information infrastructure and the stories that they tell about their objects. My next book after that How to Read a Database is currently 5 words long.
My work on information infrastructure involves looking at shifting classification systems in medicine, distributed collaborative work practices in environmental science, data sharing practices and biodiversity informatics. My central analytic question here is how scientists in the various sciences contributing to the subject of biodiversity communicate both with each other and with policymakers - and in particular how do the data structures and practices in use affect this communication. Here is an interview with me about classification and infrastructure.

Panel: Access to Scientific Knowledge

Dan Burk

Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law University of Minnesota Law School

Professor Dan L. Burk is the Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches courses in Patent Law, Copyright, and Biotechnology Law. An internationally prominent authority on issues related to high technology, he is the author of numerous papers on the legal and societal impact of new technologies, including articles on scientific misconduct, on the regulation of biotechnology, and on the intellectual property implications of global computer networks. Professor Burk holds a B.S. in Microbiology (1985) from Brigham Young University, an M.S. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry (1987) from Northwestern University, a J.D. (1990) from Arizona State University, and a J.S.M. (1994) from Stanford University. Prior to his arrival at the University of Minnesota, Professor Burk taught at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. From 1991 to 1993 he was a Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School. He has also taught as a visitor at a variety of prominent institutions, including Cornell Law School, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, University of Tilburg, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and the Program for Management in the Network Economy at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza, Italy.

Panel: Access to Scientific Knowledge

Andy Carvin

Coordinator - Digital Divide Network

Andy Carvin, former program director of the EDC Center for Media & Community, is coordinator of the Digital Divide Network (http://www.digitaldivide.net), an online community of more than 8,000 educators, community activists, policymakers and business leaders in over 130 countries working to find solutions to the digital divide. Launched in 1999 at the Benton Foundation, DDN is the Internet's premier resource for addressing the digital divide. The site gives educators and Internet activists around the globe a range of collaboration tools, including blogs, discussion boards and other resources. Andy is the author of the pioneering online education resource EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform, launched in 1994. Named by NetGuide magazine as "One of the Top 50 Places to Go Online," EdWeb was one of the first websites to advocate the use of the World Wide Web in education. Andy is the founder and moderator of WWWEDU, the Internet's oldest and largest email forum on the role of the Web in education, and DIGITALDIVIDE, the Internet's premiere discussion group for examining digital divide issues. He also served as creator and moderator of SEPT11INFO, one of the most successful online communities created in the hours following terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Andy has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, BBC Radio, Harvard Educational Review, Education Week, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, Wired and San Jose Mercury News. Before coming to the Benton Foundation, Andy served as New Media Program Officer for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where he developed Internet-related grant programs for the public broadcasting community. In January 2005, Andy proposed a new technique for creating podcasts. The concept, mobcasting, gives groups of people the ability to record podcasts on their mobile phones and publish them on the same website. Using free online tools such as Blogger and Audioblogger, Andy set up a mobcast for Christo's February 2005 art installation in New York. Andy's website, The Gates at Central Park allowed visitors to Central Park to call a phone number and post their own art commentaries over the Internet. A similar website by Andy, Katrina Aftermath, allowed anyone to upload breaking news about Hurricane Katrina, including photos and missing person information, to a community blog. For Andy's work on mobcasting and the digital divide, MIT Technology Review magazine named him to their 2005 TR35 list, an annual list of 35 of the world's leading high-tech innovators under the age of 35. In December 2001, Andy was named by District Administration magazine as one of America's top 25 edtech advocates. Andy received similar honors from eSchoolNews in 1999 when they named him a member of its Impact 30 list of edtech leaders. He is a former member of the board of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), which advocates policies advancing the role of information technology in schools. From 1999 to 2001, he served on the Board of Directors for the Asia/Pacific Center for Justice and Peace, a consortium of NGOs that promotes democracy, freedom of speech and freedom of religion across Asia. Andy holds a bachelor of science in rhetoric and a master of arts in telecommunications policy from Northwestern University, where he received the prestigious Annenberg/Washington graduate fellowship. While living in Illinois, he was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Chicago-area arts weekly, Art+Performance. Andy has traveled extensively around the world and has written about his adventures in popular online travelogues. He has published extensively through his blog, Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth, where he also experiments with photo blogging, podcasting and video blogging. In 2002, he completed co-producing the independent documentary Thai Boxing: A Fighting Chance, which has aired in more than 140 countries on the National Geographic Channel.

Panel: Peer Production and Education

Anupam Chander

UC Davis School of Law

Anupam Chander is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the regulation of globalization and digitization.A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he clerked for Chief Judge Jon O. Newman of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He practiced law in New York and Hong Kong with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, representing foreign sovereigns in international financial transactions.In Spring 2004, he was Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford University, and in Fall 2003, he was Visiting Professor of Law at Cornell University. He began teaching as an Associate Professor at Arizona State University in 1999, and joined the UC Davis faculty in 2000. His publications include: Homeward Bound, NYU Law Review (forthcoming 2006); Globalization and Distrust, Yale Law Journal (2005); The Romance of the Public Domain, California Law Review (2004); Minorities, Shareholder and Otherwise, Yale Law Journal (2003); The New, New Property, Texas Law Review (2003); Whose Republic?, University of Chicago Law Review (2002); and Diaspora Bonds, N.Y.U. L. Rev. (2001) (Ass'n of American Law Schools Scholarly Paper, Honorable Mention

Panel: Traditional Knowledge

Julie Cohen

Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Julie E. Cohen is Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. She teaches and writes about intellectual property law, with particular focus on computer software and digital works and on the intersection of copyright, privacy, and the First Amendment in cyberspace. She is a co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Aspen Law & Business 2002), and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Advisory Board of Public Knowledge, and the Board of Academic Advisors to the American Committee for Interoperable Systems. From 1995 to 1999, Professor Cohen taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. From 1992 to 1995, she practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation. Professor Cohen received her A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe and her J.D. from the Harvard Law School, where she was a Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She is a former law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Panel: Limits on A2K

Mark Cooper

Director of Research - Consumers Federation of America

Dr. Cooper holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright Fellow. He is Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America, a Fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, a Fellow at the Columbia Institution on Tele-Information and a Fellow at The Donald McGannon Communications Center of Fordham University. Books – Open Architecture as Communications Policy (Center for Internet and Society, 2004), Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age: Promoting Diversity with First Amendment Principles and Market Structure Analysis (Center for Internet and Society, 2003), Cable Mergers and Monopolies: Market Power in Digital Media and Communications Networks (Economic Policy Institute, 2002), Equity and Energy (Westview, 1983), The Transformation of Egypt (Johns Hopkins, 1982) Chapters: “When Law and Social Science Go Hand in Glove: Usage and Importance of Local and National News Sources, Critical Questions and Answers for Media Market Analysis,” forthcoming in Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics, (Lawrence Erlbaum); “Hyper-Commercialism In The Media: The Threat To Journalism And Democratic Discourse,” forthcoming In Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy Of News In The United States And Canada ( Lexington Books) “Reclaiming The First Amendment: Legal, Factual And Analytic Support For Limits On Media Ownership,” forthcoming in The Future of Media (Seven Stories Press); “Building A Progressive Media And Communications Sector,” In News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership And Its Threat To Democracy, (Prometheus Books, 2005); “The Digital Divide Confronts the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Economic Reality versus Public Policy,” in B.M. Compaine (Ed.). The Digital Divide (Cambridge: MIT, 2001); Articles: “Information is a Public Good,” Extending the Information Society to All: Enabling Environments, Investment and Innovation, World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, November 2005; “The Importance of Collateral Communications and Deliberative Discourse in Building Internet-Based Media Reform Movements,” Online Deliberation: Design, Research and Practice/DIAC, November, 2005; “Collaborative Production in Group-Forming Networks: The 21st Century Mode of Information Production and the Telecommunications Policies Necessary to Promote It,” The State of Telecom: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead, Columbia Institute on Tele-Information, October 2005; “The Economics of Collaborative Production in the Spectrum Commons,” IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, November 2005; “Independent Noncommercial Television: Technological, Economic and Social Bases of A New Model of Video Production,” Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, October 2005; “Spectrum as Speech in the 21st Century,” The Public Airwaves as a Common Asset and a Public Good: Implications for the Future of Broadcasting and Community Development in the U.S., Ford foundation, March 11, 2005; “Limits on Media Ownership are Essential,” Television Quarterly, Spring Summer 2004; “Open Communications Platforms: Cornerstone Of Innovation And Democratic Discourse In The Internet Age, The Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, 2003; “Inequality in Digital Society,” Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, 2002; “Open Access to the Broadband Internet,” University of Colorado Law Review, Fall 2000. He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases for public interest clients including Attorneys General, People’s Counsels, and citizen interveners before state and federal agencies, courts and legislators in almost four dozen jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada.

Panel: Licensing to Produce A2K

Jennifer Corriero

Co-Founder, Executive Director TakingITGlobal

Born and raised in Toronto, Jennifer Corriero, Change Your World Conference Coordinator, is the executive director of TakingITGlobal (TIG), a non-profit organization she co-founded aimed at youth 13 to 30 from around the world. TIG promotes socially and environmentally responsible entrepreneurship and engagement through technology, communication, collaboration, and community. Time magazine has featured her as a leader for Canada's Next Generation and the World Economic Forum named the 23-year-old a Global Leader for Tomorrow. Corriero is a member of the official Canadian delegation to the UN World Summit on the Information Society, where she helped draft and push for a statement on youth to be included in the summit's Declaration of Principles. The statement calls attention to the central role played by young people as learners, developers, contributors, entrepreneurs and decision makers in the emergent world information society. She has consulted for numerous companies including Hewlett-Packard, Swatch, and Microsoft, for whom she spent six months at their Seattle headquarters advising senior executives on how the next generation will use technology. Corriero was an organizing committee member for the Youth Employment Summit in Alexandria, Egypt in September 2002. She represented Canadian youth at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa, and has presented at events including the 5th Stockholm Challenge Global Forum and Exhibition on the topic of knowledge-transfer in Sweden, and the 2003 UNESCO Youth Forum in Paris. "This generation of young people has far more power and potential to create change compared to any previous generation of youth-and I am interested in helping to uncover this potential," she says. She is now pursuing her master's degree in York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies. Her area of concentration is "Youth Engagement and Capacity-Building across Cultures."

Panel: Peer Production and Education

Susan Crawford

Assistant Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law

Susan Crawford is Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, teaching cyberlaw and telecommunications law. Ms. Crawford received her B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and J.D. from Yale University. She served as a clerk for Judge Raymond J. Dearie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Washington, D.C.) until the end of 2002, when she left that firm to enter the legal academy. Ms. Crawford’s practice was focused on internet law and policy issues, including governance, privacy, intellectual property, advertising, and defamation. She represented major online companies, startups, and joint ventures, and worked particularly closely with companies doing business in the domain name world. From 1996-1998, she taught copyright as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Law Center, and she speaks frequently about online legal issues. Ms. Crawford writes about telecommunications policy and internet governance issues. Her article, "The Biology of the Broadcast Flag" was published in the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal in late 2003; "The Accountable Internet: Peer Production of Internet Governance" (with David R. Johnson and John G. Palfrey, Jr.) was published by the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology in 2004; "Shortness of Vision: Regulatory Ambition in the Digital Age" will be published as part of a symposium hosted by the Fordham Law Review in late 2005; "First Do No Harm: The Problem of Spyware" will be published as part of a symposium hosted by the Berkeley Technology and Law Journal in late 2005; . Upcoming pieces will be about online identity, FCC jurisdiction, and other digital policy issues. She has also published many online essays about ICANN (most co-authored with David R. Johnson), and maintains a website and blog. Susan is a member of the Board of ICANN, the Chair of the Board of Directors of Innovation Network (www.innonet.org), a member of the Board of Directors of Greenwood Music Camp, and a member of the advisory boards of Public Knowledge, SquareTrade, Renovation in Music Education, Voxiva, and other groups. Susan, a violist, lives in New York City.

Panel: Network neutrality in a Developing World

Elenita Dano

Associate, Third World Network

Neth is an independent researcher who has extensive experience in development work, especially on issues affecting community-based conservation and development of plant genetic resources in Southeast Asia. She is currently employed as Associate of Third World Network (TWN), on a part-time basis, working mainly on agriculture and biosafety issues in Asia. She has worked in policy advocacy, information and lobbying at the Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment (SEARICE) from June 1993 to July 2004, while at the same time acting as its Executive Director from January 1998 to June 2004. She currently works as an Associate of Third World Network (TWN) based in Davao City in Mindanao, southern Philippines, focusing on sustainable agriculture, biosafety and biodiversity issues in Asia. She gained substantial experiences in policy advocacy and lobbying on issues surrounding intellectual property rights, access to genetic resources, community rights and genetic engineering through her years of engagement with peoples’ organizations, governments, inter-governmental bodies and other non-government organizations on these issues in numerous conferences, negotiations and interactions as participant and as resource person. Neth has also worked as a researcher/research associate for several non-government organizations working on rural issues, women and indigenous peoples in the early 90s. She has some research exposure in working with the academe on such issues as Philippine election dynamics and military bases conversion. She worked briefly with the Philippine’s Department of Agriculture as a planning officer and with the with the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) as community development officer at the start of her career. Neth earned her Bachelors’ degree in Development Studies (cum laude) from the University of the Philippines in October 1987. She dabbled with Law in the same university for a semester in 1989, but ended up completing her Master’s degree in Community Development in 1994.

Panel: Agriculture, and Genetically Modified Foods

Jeremy deBeer

Law Professor, University of Ottawa

Professor Jeremy F. deBeer is a law professor at the University of Ottawa, specializing in classic and intellectual property and related areas of law.Prior to joining the faculty's law and technology group, Professor deBeer was awarded a BCL (First Class) from the University of Oxford. He also holds a LL.B (Silver Medallist with Great Distinction) and a B.Comm (Great Distinction) from the University of Saskatchewan. He has won numerous academic prizes and scholarships at each University. Professor deBeer is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, who was employed previously by the Department of Justice, as legal counsel to the Copyright Board of Canada. He was law clerk to the Honourable Mr. Justice A.M. Linden of the Federal Court of Appeal, and has worked at the law firm of Macleod Dixon LLP in Calgary, Alberta. Professor deBeer teaches Property Law, and will soon lead a seminar on Advanced IP Theory. In the past, he has taught Property, Torts and Legal Research and Writing. His current research revolves around various aspects of intellectual property. Professor deBeer has most recently written about the constitutional implications of copyrights, the role of copyrights in the music and entertainment industries and the notion of balance in copyright and patent law. Ongoing projects address the impact of agricultural biotechnology patents on classic property rights, global food security and other humanitarian issues.

Panel: Agriculture, and Genetically Modified Foods

William Drake

President of CPSR, and Project Director at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

William J. Drake is President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and Director of the Project on the Information Revolution and Global Governance at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, he is, inter alia, co-editor of the MIT Press book series, The Information Revolution and Global Politics; and a former member of the Working Group on Internet Governance. Previously, he has been Senior Associate and Director of the Project on the Information Revolution and World Politics at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Associate Director of the Communication, Culture and Technology Program, Georgetown University; and Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. His books and monographs include: Governing Global Electronic Networks: International Perspectives on Policy and Power (co-ed., MIT Press, forthcoming); Reforming Internet Governance: Perspectives from the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (ed., United Nations, 2005); Information and Communications Technology for Peace (ICT4P): The Role of ICT in Preventing, Responding to and Recovering from Conflict (co-author, United Nations, 2005); From the Global Digital Divide to the Global Digital Opportunity: Proposals Submitted to the G-8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit 2000---Report of the World Economic Forum Task Force on the Global Digital Divide (World Economic Forum, 2000); Toward Sustainable Competition in Global Telecommunications: From Principle to Practice--Summary Report of the Third Aspen Institute Roundtable on International Telecommunications (Aspen Institute, 1999); Telecommunications in the Information Age (ed., U.S. Information Agency, 1998); and The New Information Infrastructure: Strategies for US Policy (Ed., Twentieth Century Fund, 1995).

Panel: Political Economy

Niva Elkin-Koren

Vice Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa

Niva Elkin-Koren is a Professor of Law and a co-director of the Haifa Center of Law & Technology at the University of Haifa School of Law. Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production of information. She has written and spoken extensively about the privatization of information policy, copyright law and democratic theory, the effects of cyberspace on the economic analysis of law, the regulation of search engines, liability of information intermediaries, and the significance of the public domain. She received her LL.B from Tel-Aviv University School of Law in 1989, her LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1991, and her S.J.D from Stanford Law School in 1995. She was a visiting professor at NYU School of Law (2004-2005), George Washington University Law School (2001), and Villanova School of Law (1997).

Panel: Licensing to Produce A2K

Anriette Esterhuysen

Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications

Anriette Esterhuysen (South Africa) is the Executive Director of the Association for Progressive Communications, an international networked organisation (established in 1990) that focuses on the use of information and communication technologies by civil society for social justice and development. She was Executive Director of SANGONeT, an internet service provider and ICT training institution for the development sector in South Africa from 1993 to 2000. Prior to that she worked in development and in human rights organisations involved in the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. She is a founder of Women'sNet, a national women's network in South Africa and has served on the African Technical Advisory Committee of the UN's Economic Commission for Africa's African Information Society Initiative and was a member of the United Nations ICT Task Force from 2002-5. She serves on the governing bodies of Isis Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange in Uganda, the Society for International Development, the Global Knowledge Partnership at international level, and Ungana Afrika, a South African e-rider network.

Panel: Political Economy

Robert Evenson

Professor of Economics, Yale University, Department of Economics

Robert Evenson is a Professor of Economics, Yale University. His research interests include: Agricultural households in developing countries; Economics of invention; Technical change. Teaching Fields: Microeconomics; Economic development; Economics of technology; Agricultural development

Panel: Agriculture, and Genetically Modified Foods

Joaquim Falcao

Professor of Constituional Law, FGV-Rio, Brazil

Dr. Joaquim Falcao is Dean of the Law School of Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro, a member of the National Council of Justice, and a Professor of Constitutional Law. He received his LLM at Harvard, and Docteur en Education at Universitè de Genève. He has authored several books and articles in law, culture, and public policy. He also served as the Former Secretary General of Roberto Marinho Foundation, TV Globo Network.

Panel: Solutions

Terry Fisher

Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law Harvard Law School Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Professor Fisher received his undergraduate degree (in American Studies) from Amherst College and his graduate degrees (J.D. and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization) from Harvard University. Between 1982 and 1984, he served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Since 1984, he has taught at Harvard Law School, where he is currently the Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law and the Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His academic honors include a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship (1978-1982) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1992-1993).

Panel: Solutions

Brian Fitzgerald

Head, School of Law Queensland University of Technology

Brian is a well-known intellectual property and information technology lawyer. He has published articles on Law and the Internet in Australia, the United States, Europe, Nepal, India, Canada and Japan and his latest (co-authored) books are Cyberlaw: Cases and Materials on the Internet, Digital Intellectual Property and E Commerce (2002); Jurisdiction and the Internet (2004); Intellectual Property in Principle (2004). Over the past five years Brian has delivered seminars on information technology and intellectual property law in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA, Nepal, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Norway and the Netherlands. In October 1999 Brian delivered the Seventh Annual Tenzer Lecture - Software as Discourse: The Power of Intellectual Property in Digital Architecture - at Cardozo Law School in New York. Through the first half of 2001 Brian was a Visiting Professor at Santa Clara University Law School in Silicon Valley in the USA. In January 2003 Brian delivered lectures in India and Nepal and in February 2003 was invited as part of a distinguished panel of three to debate the Theoretical Underpinning of Intellectual Property Law at University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. During 2005 Brian presented talks in Germany, India and China and was a Visiting Professor in the Oxford University Internet Institute’s Summer Doctoral Program in Beijing in July 2005. He is also a Chief Investigator and Program Leader for Law in the newly awarded ARC Centre of Excellence on Creative Industries and Innovation. Brian is also Project Leader for the DEST funded Open Access to Knowledge Law Project OAK Law Project, looking at legal protocols for open access to the Australian research sector. His current projects include work on intellectual property issues across the areas of Copyright and the Creative Industries in China, Open Content Licensing and the Creative Commons, Free and Open Source Software, Research Use of Patents, Science Commons, E-Research, Licensing of Digital Entertainment and Anti-Circumvention Law. Brian is a Project Leader for Creative Commons in Australia. From 1998-2002 Brian was Head of the School of Law and Justice at Southern Cross University in New South Wales, Australia and in January 2002 was appointed as Head of the School of Law at QUT in Brisbane, Australia.

Panel: Licensing to Produce A2K

Peter Frohler

Officer in Charge, Services Infrastrure for Development and Trade Efficiency Division, UNCTAD

Peter Fröhler joined the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1977 and is currently heading the division "Services Infrastructure for Development and Trade Efficiency". During his professional career with UNCTAD he has been working in many different areas of development cooperation. Among others he has managed the programme for Customs reform and computerization (ASYCUDA), which has been implemented in 90 countries worldwide. Before joining UNCTAD he has worked at the Kiel Institute for World Economics in Germany, where he has developed quantitative simulation models.

Panel: Limits on A2K

Michael Geist

Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law

Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School. Dr. Geist has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law, was a member of Canada’s National Task Force on Spam, is a nationally syndicated columnist on technology law issues for the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen, and is the editor of In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, published in 2005 by Irwin Law. He is the editor of several monthly technology law publications and the author of a popular blog on Internet and intellectual property law issues. Dr. Geist has received numerous awards for his work including Canarie’s IWAY Public Leadership Award for his contribution to the development of the Internet in Canada and he was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2003.

Panel: Network neutrality in a Developing World

Karsten Gerloff

Fellow, Free Software Foundation Europe

Karsten is working with the Free Software Foundation Europe. His focus is on Access to Knowledge topics. With a background in Cultural Sciences, Karsten is working with the Free Software Foundation Europe. He runs "Inside, wide-eyed", a weblog on Access to Knowledge, digital civil rights and Free Software. Besides that, he is currently writing his Master's thesis on "Access to Knowlegde in a Network Society".

Panel: Licensing to Produce A2K

Mark Gerstein

Albert L Williams Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Computer Science Yale University Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

Mark Gerstein is the Albert L Williams associate professor of Biomedical Informatics at Yale University. He is co-director the Yale Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program, and has appointments in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and the Department of Computer Science. He received his AB in physics summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1989 and his PhD in chemistry from Cambridge in 1993. He did post-doctoral work at Stanford and took up his post at Yale in early 1997. Since then he has received a number of young investigator awards (e.g. from the Navy and the Keck foundation) and has published appreciably in scientific journals. He has >180 publications in total, with a number of them in prominent journals, such as Science, Nature, and Scientific American. (His current publication list is at http://papers.gersteinlab.org .) His research is focused on bioinformatics, and he is particularly interested in large-scale integrative surveys, biological database design, macromolecular geometry, molecular simulation, human genome annotation, gene expression analysis, and data mining.

Panel: Access to Scientific Knowledge

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

Programme Leader, FLOSS United Nations University UNU-MERIT

Rishab Aiyer Ghosh - Research coordinator (OSI board member) Rishab sees his role on the Open Source Initiative board not in advocacy, but in promoting unbiased, evidence-based research on the socio-economic, legal and technical aspects of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) worldwide. He is Founding International and Managing Editor of First Monday, the most widely read peer-reviewed on-line journal of the Internet. He is Programme Leader at MERIT/International Institute of Infonomics at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands, where he moved from Delhi, India in 2000. He coordinated the European Union -funded FLOSS project, a comprehensive study of users and developers, and leads the FLOSSPOLS project studying government use, skills development and gender issues in FLOSS. He is actively involved in initiatives related to government policy on FLOSS in Europe and Asia. He conducts research funded by the EU, the Dutch government and the US National Science Foundation.

Panel: Licensing to Produce A2K

Johanna Gibson

Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London

Johanna Gibson researches and teaches intellectual property law at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute, within the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London, and was formerly in commercial intellectual property law practice in Melbourne, Australia. Johanna is the Project Director of Patenting Lives, an international network examining cultural and socio-economic aspects of patents on life forms. Much of Johanna's research is concerned with intellectual property and development, traditional knowledge, community governance, and cultural diversity. She has also written recently on the social and cultural aspects of creativity and economies in knowledge and creative products, and has acted as a consultant to the United Kingdom and European Patent Offices on intellectual property law and policy. Johanna continues to work on the politics of intellectual property and development, and is the author of Community Resources: Intellectual Property, International Trade and Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Creating Selves: Intellectual Property and the Narration of Culture. Education: BA(Hons); MA(Research); PGDipAppSci (Animal Sciences); JD (Queensland); PhD (Edinburgh); Admitted as a Solicitor and Barrister to the Supreme Court of Victoria, High Court of Australia.

Panel: Agriculture, and Genetically Modified Foods

Mike Godwin

Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School

Mike Godwin is an ISP Resident Fellow, funded by Microsoft, for the year 2005-6. Mr. Godwin also holds an appointment as Research Scientist with the PORTIA project at the Yale University department of Computer Science. Mike Godwin served for nine years as the first Staff Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he informed users of electronic networks about their legal rights and responsibilities, instructed criminal lawyers and law-enforcement personnel about computer civil-liberties issues, and conducted seminars about civil liberties in electronic communication for a wide range of groups. Godwin has published articles for print and electronic publications on topics such as electronic searches and seizures, the First Amendment & electronic publications, and the application of international law to computer communications. His blog is called "Godwin's Law."
Godwin has written articles about social and legal issues on the electronic frontier that have appeared in the Whole Earth Review, Quill,Index on Censorship, Internet World, WIRED & HotWired, and Playboy. In 1991-92, Godwin chaired a committee of the Massachusetts Computer Crime Commission, where he supervised the drafting of recommendations to Governor Weld for the development of computer-crime statutes. From 1999 to 2001, Godwin served as a reporter one-commerce and intellectual-property issues for American Lawyer Media,first as senior editor of E-Commerce Law Weekly, then as chief correspondent of IP Worldwide. Most recently, he has been legal director of Public Knowledge and a senior policy fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Godwin is currently a research fellow at Yale University. He also is a contributing editor at Reason.
Godwin is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law where he served, while still a law student, as Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Texan, the award winning University of Texas student newspaper. Prior to his legal studies, Godwin worked as a journalist and as a computer consultant. He received a B.A. in liberal arts from the University of Texas at Austin with highest honors, and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Godwin served as co-counsel to the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case Reno v. ACLU. EFF was also a plaintiff in that case. Godwin's first book, Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age, was published by Random House/Times Books in the summer of 1998. It was reissued in a revised edition by MIT Press in 2003.

Panel: Network neutrality in a Developing World

Dorothy Gordon

Director-General, Advanced Information Technology Institute (AITI), Gahna

Dorothy K. Gordon, is the founding Director-General of Ghana’s first Advanced Information Technology Institute (AITI), the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (www.aiti-kace.com.gh). She is a specialist in international development with an M.Phil. from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. As Director-General she has the responsibility of ensuring that AITI fulfills its mandate of stimulating growth of the ICT sector and the use of ICT to accelerate development in the ECOWAS subregion. AITI provides globally benchmarked IT training; works to create the right environment to stimulate high-level context-responsive ICT research and development and provides high-end consulting services to achieve global quality standards for clients.

Panel: Wireless ICTs and Access to Knowledge

Robin Gross

Executive Director, IP Justice

Robin D. Gross is founder and Executive Directive of IP Justice an international civil liberties organization that promotes balanced intellectual property law and protects freedom of expression. An attorney, Ms. Gross advises policy makers throughout the world on the impact of intellectual property rules before national legislatures and in international treaties and trade agreements. Ms. Gross lectures at international seminars, law schools and universities on cyberspace legal issues including digital copyright, fair use, and Peer-2-Peer (P2P) file-sharing. Ms. Gross serves as a member of the High Technology Legal Advisory Board for Santa Clara University School of Law, where she teaches International Copyright Law. She represents the Non-Commercial Users (NCUC) Constituency on the GNSO Policy Council at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Union for the Public Domain, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to protecting the public domain. Ms. Gross also serves as a member of the Advisory Board for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - Peru, and for FreeMuse, an independent international organization based in Copenhagen that advocates freedom of expression for musicians and composers worldwide. In July 2004 Managing Intellectual Property Magazine named Ms. Gross as one of “2004’s Top 50 Most Influential People in Intellectual Property in the World.” She was called to testify before the US Copyright Office during the 2003 and 2000 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Rulemaking Hearings .Before founding IP Justice in 2002, Ms. Gross was the first Staff Attorney for Intellectual Property with the cyber-liberties organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation where she began the group’s campaign in intellectual property litigation in 1999. While at EFF, she defended Morpheus P2P file-sharing software developers at the district court in a case that upheld the US Supreme Court’s “Betamax” ruling, and represented consumers over their right to use digital VCRs. In 1999 Ms. Gross led EFF’s defense of web publishers of DeCSS computer code that unlocks DVDs (including Norwegian teen Jon Johansen). She also represented 2600 Magazine (against the major movie studios) and Princeton scientists (against the recording industry) over publication of technical information banned by the DMCA. In 2001 she developed EFF's Open Audio License, an early public license for music that permits public sharing in exchange for artist attribution.California’s legal newspaper The Daily Journal selected Ms. Gross as one of “California’s Top Ten Most Influential Attorneys in 2001”. She has appeared as a guest legal expert on TV and radio news stations including CNN, BBC, NPR, PRI, Tech TV, NHK, DRS, VOA, and CBC. Ms. Gross has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Business Week, Wired News, Associated Press, Reuters, Financial Times, Billboard and other media outlets. A 1998 graduate of Santa Clara University’s High Technology Law Program, Ms. Gross is licensed to practice law in California. A Michigan native, she graduated from Michigan State University’s James Madison College in 1995 with degrees in political philosophy and international relations. Ms. Gross’ personal interests include music, dancing, playing basketball, yoga, sewing, baking, and her Dalmatian, Spot.

Panel: Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright

Teresa Hackett

Project Manager eIFL-IP

Teresa Hackett is the Project Manager of eIFL-IP: Advocacy for Access to Knowledge, a programme to raise awareness in copyright issues for libraries in eIFL.net member countries and to represent their interests in international policy fora.Teresa was the Director of the European library association (EBLIDA) from 2000-2003, provided technical support to the European Commission library research programme and was part of the team to establish electronic information centres at the British Council Germany.Teresa has a special interest in legal issues in information work, especially n the electronic environment, and has worked as a consultant to a variety of European organizations. She is currently an Expert Resource Person on the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA-CLM). Teresa is a chartered librarian and in 2004 completed a post-graduate diploma in legal studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Teresa is a native English speaker and speaks Irish, German and Dutch.

Panel: Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright

David Hakken

Professor of Informatics, Indiana University School of Informatics

Prof. Hakken is a cultural anthropologist who does ethnography in cyberspace, in order to understand both how automated information technologies (AITs) shape cultures and are shaped by them. He also promotes AITs that expand, not undermine, human capabilities. Previous research sites have been linked to England, Scandinavia, and upstate New York. His current work on Open Computing (especially Open Source) and Knowledge Networking compares Nusantara (Island Southeast Asia) with the North Atlantic; he has recently returned from Malaysia where he spent the first half of 2005 doing fieldwork on a Fulbright Research Grant. In addition to grants from the US National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Program, he has worked in/for the Resource Center for Independent Living, other not-for-profit organizations, and public social services. While teaching Anthropology and Information Studies at SUNY Institute of Technology, he also ran the Institute’s Policy Center. He is past president of the Society for the Anthropology of Work of the American Anthropological Association, the first recipient of the AAA’s Textor Prize in Anticipatory Anthropology, and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Besides several scholarly and popular articles, he has written four books on computing and co-edited another. His second Routledge Press book, The Knowledge Landscapes of Cyberspace, was published in October, 2003. While teaching Anthropology and Information Studies at SUNY Institute of Technology, he also ran the Institute’s Policy Center. He is past president of the Society for the Anthropology of Work of the American Anthropological Association, the first recipient of the AAA’s Textor Prize in Anticipatory Anthropology, and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Besides several scholarly and popular articles, he has written four books on computing and co-edited another. His second Routledge Press book, The Knowledge Landscapes of Cyberspace, was published in October, 2003.

Panel: Wireless ICTs and Access to Knowledge

Saskia Harmsen

Capacity Development Officer, IICD

Saskia Harmsen has been working as Capacity Development officer for the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) for over four years. In her history at IICD, she has worked on the capacity development programme for IICD’s Bolivia, Zambia and Ghana Country programmes.Born in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Saskia was raised and schooled in Sweden, Germany, and Austria, and holds a BSc degree in Management Studies from the University of London, and an MA degree from the University of Amsterdam. Her MA research was focused on the use of ICTs for Rural Development under Professor Cees Hamelink. Her ICT-related working history has seen her active in customer relationship management for various software firms, and has brought her to develop European business opportunities for an Israeli internet start-up, before taking up a position with IICD. Saskia also coordinates cross-national activities and partnerships related to Capacity Development in ICT4Development on behalf of IICD, such as itrainonline. The itrainonline partnership has brought to the fore experience and lessons in terms of collaboration and partnership, as well as in the development and use of learning resources in a collaborative fashion using electronic means. Additionally, in order to overcome the absence of official learning materials, whether for Secondary Education or Improved Farming Practices, IICD has supported a number of organisations to utilise ICTs to develop, enhance and share their own appropriate content. Saskia has been involved in the formulation and implementation of many of these projects and programmes from a capacity building perspective, and can relay IICD’s experiences with collaboration and content development from both national and international level.

Panel: Peer Production and Education

Stevan Harnad

University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science

Professor Stevan Harnad - born June 2, 1945 in Budapest - is a Hungarian-born cognitive scientist. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University (PhD 1991). He is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Southampton. He is also an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. He is founder and editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), Psycoloquy (an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association) and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences. He is also moderator of the American Scientist Open Access Forum.

Panel: The Role of Libraries in A2K

Natali Helberger

Senior Researcher Institute for Information Law (IViR) Faculty of Law - University of Amsterdam

Natali Helberger is Associated Professor at the Institute for Information Law. Dr. Helberger specialises in the regulation of converging information- and communications markets, Digital Rights Management and the interface between technique and information law. Among her present activities are a study about the Recasting of European copyright, a study financed by the European Commission and the INDCARE project to which she is managing legal partner. INDICARE (Informed Dialogue about Consumer Acceptability of Rights Management Solutions in Europe) is a project co-funded by the European Commission. The objective of INDICARE is to address issues regarding consumer acceptability of digital rights management solutions; identify obstacles and suggest solutions. Dr. Helberger was visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005.

Panel: DRM & Globalization

Gwen Hinze

International Affairs Director Electronic Frontier Foundation

Gwen Hinze is the International Affairs Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-governmental organization with over 10,000 members worldwide, dedicated to the protection of consumers' rights and civil liberties in the digital world. EFF works to educate policy makers in various fora, including the World Intellectual Property Organization and international standards bodies, about the need for balanced intellectual property regimes that protect creators, preserve access to knowledge, foster technological innovation, and empower digital consumers. EFF has particular expertise in the technological protection measure provisions of the 1998 U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, having been counsel of record or amicus curiae in all the early major cases interpreting its scope. Ms. Hinze is one of the co-authors of EFF's report Unintended Consequences: Five Years Under the DMCA, and has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office for consumer exemptions in the DMCA rule-making inquiry. Ms. Hinze is a lawyer specializing in international intellectual property and Internet regulation policy. She is a member of the State Bar of California in the United States, and a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia.

Panel: DRM & Globalization

Julien Hofman

Associate Professor University of Cape Town, Department of Commercial Law

Julien Hofman is responsible for the LLM programme in eLaw in the School for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has been involved in access to knowledge since 1995 when he set up the Constitutional Assembly Database to provide an online record of South Africa’s constitution making. Since then he has served on a South African universities committee set up to negotiate with the publishing industry about the educational use of copyright material. He has worked with the Commonwealth of Learning to promote awareness of the need for legal reform in this area and he represented the Commonwealth of Learing at the November 2005 meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright.

Panel: Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright

John Horrigan

Associate Director, Research - Pew Internet & American Life Project

John B. Horrigan is the Associate Director for Research at the Pew Internet & American Life Project, where he studies the online behavior of broadband internet users and consumers of other leading edge information technology. He also leads Pew’s research on the internet's impact on people’s social networks and news gathering habits. Horrigan is also a member of the Board of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. Additionally, Horrigan is an Adjunct Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin’s Washington Campus, the Bill Archer Center. Horrigan received his Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin and his B.A. from the University of Virginia. Prior to joining Pew, Horrigan was a staff officer for the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy at the National Research Council. He has also served as press secretary to former U.S. Congressman Jake Pickle.

Panel: Measuring Access to Knowledge

John Howkins

Director The Adelphi Charter

John Howkins is Director of the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property. He was the Chair of the CODE (Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy) conference in Cambridge in 2001 and edited the book, CODE. He chaired the IP&PD (Intellectual Property and the Public Domain) meeting, supported by Duke University and Arts Council England in London, 2004. His interest in intellectual property policy springs from his experience in media, international governance, and the creative economy. He was Executive Director of the International Institute of Communications (IIC) 1985-1990 working closely with organisations and individuals in over 100 countries. The IIC was active in promoting the New World Information Order and took the lead role in developing the Right to Communicate. He is Deputy Chair, British Screen Advisory Council. He is a former Chairman of the London Film School and Vice Chairman of the Association of Independent Producers. He was Coordinator of the European Commission’s Audiovisual Conference 1998. In 2003 he proposed a London-based Intellectual Property Advisory Centre which is now called Own It.He was associated with Time Warner for 15 years with responsibilities for strategy and new business in Europe. He is a director of ITR & Co and has advised ABC, European Commission, IBM, London Development Agency, News Corp, NHK, Sky TV, Televisa, UNCTAD and Universal Studios. He has worked in over 30 countries. He is a director of Equator Group plc, a film company listed on the London AIM market, and other companies creating and dealing in copyrights. He is the author of many books, including 'CODE' (ed), ‘The Creative Economy', ‘Global Scenarios for Information', 'New Technologies, New Policies' and 'Communications in China'. He is Visiting Professor at Lincoln University, UK, and the Shanghai Theatre Academy, China.

Panel: Framing Access to Knowledge

Richard Jefferson

Chair & CEO, CAMBIA and BiOS Initiative (Biological Innovation for Open Society)

Richard Jefferson was born in 1956 in Santa Cruz, California and began his molecular biology career in 1974. In 1985, with an NIH fellowship he moved to the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI) in Cambridge, England, where he adapted the GUS system for plants and agriculture. The GUS reporter gene system - through active distribution to thousands of labs - is now arguably the most widely used tool in plant molecular biology. In 1989, after United Nations consultancies in Africa, he joined the Food and Agriculture Organization as their first senior staff Molecular Biologist. He left the UN System in 1991 in order to establish CAMBIA as an autonomous private research and development institute, initially in the Netherlands. Richard's work has been cited in the primary literature over 6000 times. In the last several years, Richard's expertise in intellectual property matters and agriculture and biotechnology research strategy and policy worldwide have become widely recognised. He was appointed by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity as Author-in-Chief for the landmark study on Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs or Terminator Technology). Richard was chosen as an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation and is a regular participant and panelist at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting at Davos. In December 2003 he was named by Scientific American to the List of World's 50 most influential technologists, and cited as the World Research Leader for 2003 for Economic Development. He was nominated as a finalist for Wired Magazine's Rave Awards for Scientist of the Year for 2005, and received the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) "Leadership in Science Public Service Award" in July 2005. He is recognized as a pioneer in new democratized innovation and intellectual property mechanisms and the founder of the biological open-source movement, called BIOS.

Panel: Solutions

Douglas Johnson

Corporate Standards, CTO Department, Sun Microsystems, Inc

Dr. Johnson joined Sun in March of 1996 after nearly 15 years in the private and public R&D sector where he participated in a variety of activities, primarily involved with data-intensive remote sensing technologies. Currently in the Corporate Standards Department, he is working to identify and further the adoption of key standards for advanced technologies and emerging markets. The impact and role of Internet technologies and standards has been a central theme in these efforts, including likely future evolution and exploitation of wireless, network-centric and related architectures. The roles of standards creation processes, intellectual property rights, and their impact on the creation and growth of technical markets is also of great interest to Dr. Johnson. He has been involved extensively, both as an organizer and participant, in an annual series of conferences known as the Standards Edge, produced by the Bolin Group, addressing a number of emerging standards related topics. In addition to extensive experience in designing and developing computing architectures for the analysis of diverse physical data sets, he has published more than 50 articles, reports and presentations on a variety of scientific topics, primarily in the physical sciences. These topics include laser-based chemical remote sensing, galactic structure and satellite-based image sensor design and exploitation, as well as the design and implementation of algorithms for remote sensing data analysis.

Panel: Solutions

Heather Joseph

Executive Director, SPARC

Heather Joseph joined SPARC as director in July 2005. Heather is responsible for SPARC's overall program development. She determines and implements SPARC goals; leads SPARC's advocacy efforts to support widespread adoption of open access to scholarly research; identifies and negotiates partnerships with scholarly publishers; builds coalitions of support; and generally represents the interests and values of SPARC to the stakeholders in scholarly communication. Before coming to SPARC, the culmination of Heather's career in scholarly publishing was serving as President and Chief Operating Officer for BioOne, a SPARC publisher partner. Under her leadership, BioOne focused on helping small scholarly societies in the biological sciences remain independent and competitive in the electronic arena, while maintaining academy friendly access policies. For her work in successfully launching and establishing BioOne, Heather was awarded the 2002 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers? Award for Services to Not-for-Profit Publishing. She also served as elected president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing for the 2004-2005 term.

Panel: The Role of Libraries in A2K

Eric Kansa

Executive Director , The Alexandria Archive Institute

Eric C. Kansa is cofounder and Executive Director of the Alexandria Archive Institute and chief developer of "Open Context" (www.opencontext.org/database/browse.php), an online system for sharing primary field data for archaeology and other environmental and social sciences. This follows a position on the faculty of Harvard University, where he served as Lecturer and Undergraduate Tutor for the Department of Anthropology. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a BA in Cultural Anthropology and continued his education at Harvard University beginning in 1995. There, he earned his doctorate in 2001 and has focused his archaeological research on the interactions between ancient states and neighboring societies. His current efforts focus on open dissemination strategies, information architectures for the social sciences, and intellectual property frameworks for online scholarship. These efforts work towards enhancing the research value and creative potential of world cultural heritage.

Panel: Traditional Knowledge

Amy Kapczynski

Fellow, Yale Law School

Amy Kapczynski received her J.D. from Yale Law School, her M.A. in Literature from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and her M.Phil. in Sociology and Politics of Modern Society from Cambridge University, after receiving her A.B. in Politics and Women's Studies from Princeton University. She has clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She has worked with Médecins Sans Frontières, ACLU Women's Right Project, East Bay Community Law Project, Lawyers Collective, HIV/AIDS Unit, and the Bard College Human Rights Project. Her primary research interests are in the interrelationship between HIV/AIDS, trade law, and international financial institutions; intellectual property law as it relates to HIV medicines for developing countries; and international human rights system failures in the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Panel: Access to Medicines

Eddan Katz

Executive Director, Information Society Project and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School

Eddan Katz is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project and Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School. He has written articles and teaches in the areas of cyberlaw, intellectual property, telecommunications, and bioethics. He also wrote the hypertext poem Revolution is not an AOL Keyword, which has since been made into a T-shirt through the public domain license under which it was released. Eddan received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC, Berkeley in 2002, with a Certificate in Law and Technology and honors in Intellectual Property Scholarship. He was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC, Berkeley in 2002-3; and a Resident Fellow with the ISP in 2003-4. Eddan received his B.A. in philosophy from Yale in 1997.

Panel: Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright

Nimrod Kozlovski

Adjunct Lecturer, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law

Nimrod Kozlovski is a researcher, lecturer and consultant in the fields of internet and information law and information security. He received his doctor degree in law (J.S.D) from Yale Law School and conducted his Post-Doc research in computer science as an associate in the c! omputer science department at Yale University. Dr. Kozlovski consults to start-ups, high-tech companies and governmental bodies and serves in the advisory board of several technological companies. He is the author of the book "The Computer and the Legal Process" (Israeli Bar Association Press, 2000), co-editor of the forthcoming book on Computer Crimes (NYU Press, 2006, ed: Jack Balkin et el.) and numerous articles on the Internet and privacy law, computer crimes, computer search and seizure and electroni! c evidence. He was an Adjunct Professor for CyberCrime at New York Law School and is currently a lecturer in cyberlaw and e-commerce at Tel-Aviv University. After receiving his LL.B. and LL.M. degrees with honors from Tel-Aviv University, he clerked for Hon. Gavriel Kling, Tel-Aviv District Court, and later for Hon. Dr. Michael Cheshin of the Israeli Supreme Court. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project since 2002.

Panel: Limits on A2K

Sudhir Krishnaswamy

Faculty of Law, Oxford University

Sudhir Krishnaswamy is currently writing a Doctoral Thesis at the Faculty of Law, Oxford University on ‘The Basic Structure Doctrine in Indian Constitutional Adjudication’. He was a College Teaching Fellow in Law at Pembroke College, University of Oxford from 2003-2005. He was an Independent Research Fellow at the SARAI Programme on Intellectual Property Law and the Knowledge-Culture Commons at the Centre for Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India from 2002-2005. He is an Editor of the the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and was an Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal from 2003-4. Sudhir Krishnaswamy graduated with a Bachelors degree in Art and Law [Honours] from the National Law School Bangalore in 1998. He went on to complete the Bachelor in Civil Law degree at the University of Oxford between 1998-2000 on a Rhodes Scholarship. He spent the next two years teaching law at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. His research interests include public law, property law, legal theory and the reform of legal systems.

Panel: Limits on A2K

Amitabh Kundu

Jawaharlal Nehru University Centre for the Study of Regional Development

Dr. Amitabh Kundu is currently Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has done Post Doctoral work as a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a Visiting Professor at University of Amsterdam, Maison des Sciences de L’homme, Paris, University of Kaiserslautern and South Asian Institute Heidelberg, Germany. He has done International Consultancies for UNDP, UNESCO, UNCHS, ILO, Government of Netherlands, University of Toronto, Sasakawa Foundation etc. He has worked as Director at various institutes such as National Institute of Urban Affairs, Indian Council of Social Science research and Gujarat Institute of Development Research. Currently he is in the Editorial Board of Manpower Journal, Urban India, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, Indian Journal of Labour Economics. He has about twenty books and two hundred research articles, published in India and abroad, to his credit. His recent books (edited) are “Inequality, Mobility and Urbanisation: China and India”, “Informal Sector in India” and "Poverty and Vulnerability in a Globalising Metropolis: Ahmedabad".

Panel: Measuring Access to Knowledge

Bruno Laporte

Manager, The World Bank Knowledge and Operations Department

Bruno Laporte is currently managing the Knowledge for Development Unit in the World Bank Institute. In his current responsibility, he oversees a number of teams focusing on the impact of the knowledge revolution at the country level with the Knowledge for Development Program, at the organizational level with the Knowledge Sharing Program, and at the individual level with the Education Program. These programs aim at developing the capacity of client countries to access and use knowledge and to design and develop realistic and achievable strategies to further their transition to the knowledge economy. He joined the World Bank in March, 1985 and has worked extensively on education, training and employment issues in different countries -- Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria and Tunisia between 1985 and 1990 - Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria and Hungary between 1990 and 1995 - - Chile, Philippines, and the Caribbean between 1995 and 2000. In 1995, he transferred to the Human Development Network where he contributed to the launch of the Network. As Sector Manager for the Education Department, he managed the activities of the group and was a member of the Education Sector Board. During that time, he pioneered the development of a very innovative global best practice system in education, organized around Thematic Groups and the Education Advisory Service. In 2001, he transferred to the World Bank Institute to lead the Knowledge Sharing Program, focusing on the Bank's corporate agenda in knowledge management, and providing advice and support to all organizational units across the Bank. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked as an advisor in the Ministry of Finance and Planning in Ivory Coast. He also worked in the private sector, with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in Paris. He holds degrees in business administration from France and in education administration and planning from Harvard School of Education in the US.A Bruno Laporte has a keen interest in contributing to the shift in development paradigm, based on multi-directional knowledge and learning flows, and aimed at building capacity and providing opportunities for countries to identify their own development solutions.

Panel: Measuring Access to Knowledge

Ronaldo Lemos

Director Center for Technology & Society (CTS) at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School

Ronaldo Lemos is the director of the Center for Technology and Society at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Lemos is the head professor of Intellectual Property law at FGV Law School. He is also the director of the Creative Commons Brazil and a member of the Board of iCommons, the international Creative Commons project. He has earned his LL.B. and LL.D. from the University of Sao Paulo, and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He is the author of three books, including "Direito, Tecnologia e Cultura," published by FGV Press, 2005. He coordinates various projects, such as the Cultura Livre project, and the Open Business Project, an international initiative taking place in Brazil, Nigeria, Chile, Mexico, South Africa and the UK. He is one of the founders of Overmundo, the largest Web 2.0 iniative in Brazil. He is also a member of the Electronic Commerce Comission appointed by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, curator of the TIM Festival, and monthly columnist at Trip Magazine.

Panel: Political Economy

Lawrence Liang

The Alternative Law Forum

Lawrence Liang, a graduate form National Law School subsequently pursued his Masters degree in Warwick, England on a Chevening Scholarship. His key areas of interest are law, technology and culture, the politics of copyright and he has been working closely with Sarai, New Delhi on a joint research project Intellectual Property and the Knowledge/Culture Commons. A keen follower of the open source movement in software, Lawrence has been working on ways of translating the open source ideas into the cultural domain.

Panel: Solutions

Ken Lohento

Coordinator of the Centre for International ICT Policies

Ken LOHENTO, 32, Beninese, holds a Master of Research Degree in Information and Communication (Université Paris X – France). He works for the Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA), based in Senegal, where he coordinates (among others) a project called CIPACO www.cipaco.org. The CIPACO (Center for International ICT Policies for Central and West Africa) aims at strengthening stakeholders' capacities in West and Central Africa, for a meaningful participation in ICT policy decision-making processes, notably at the international level. At PIWA, he manages websites, organizes workshops, e-debates and coordinates reports on issues such as the regulation of convergence, media and ICTs, Internet Governance, Intellectual Property Rights in the information society, Internet Exchange Points, African Private sector participation in WSIS, Universal Access, etc. Before coming at PIWA, he worked as consultant for various institutions in the area of ICT4D (UNDP-Benin, AIF (International Francophone Agency), UNESCO-Paris (Community Multimedia Centers project), Association for Progressive Communication (APC), etc.). He also works on a voluntary basis for many African civil society initiatives (IAFRIC), Oridev Africa_net, African Civil Society for the Information Society (ACSIS), etc., some of which he initiated. He also participated in various international initiatives, such as the Global Community Network Partnership (GCNP), the World Forum on Community Networking http://lecarrefour.org, the ANAIS network, Africanti www.africanti.org. He wrote several reports or articles on knowledge mediation in rural areas, ICT policies in Benin and French speaking countries, Multistakeholder partnerships in Africa, Civil society involvement in ICT policies in Africa, ICT uses, etc.

Panel: DRM & Globalization

Doris Long

Professor and Chair, Intellectual Property Information Technology and Privacy Group The John Marshall Law School

Doris Estelle Long is a Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is a frequent lecturer in the areas of intellectual property law, e-commerce, culture and technology. She has also been actively involved in training intellectual property enforcement officials in the nations of the former Soviet Union under the auspices of the Federal Judicial Center and has served as a consultant on IPR protection and enforcement matters for diverse foreign government agencies. Professor Long is the author of numerous books and articles in the area of intellectual property law, including a treatise entitled Unfair Competition and the Lanham Act. Among her most recent articles are Globalization: A Future Trend or a Satisfying Mirage?, The Protection of Information Technology in a Culturally Diverse Marketplace and The Impact of Foreign Investment on Indigenous Culture: An Intellectual Property Perspective. She is also the co-author of the recently published Coursebook in International Intellectual Property published by West. Professor Long is also a co-editor and contributing author of two anthologies: International Intellectual Property Law Anthology, and International Intellectual Property Law, and a textbook Contracts Law and Practice: Cases and Materials. Before joining the faculty of the John Marshall Law School, Professor Long was an attorney for over 14 years with the Washington, D.C. law firms of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, and Howrey and Simon where she specialized in the areas of intellectual property, unfair competition, entertainment, computer and commercial law. She is admitted to practice before numerous courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and is the former chair of several committees in national professional organizations. Professor Long is a graduate of the Cornell Law School (J.D. Cum Laude) and Ithaca College (B.A. Summa cum laude).

Panel: Traditional Knowledge

Jamie Love

Director, Consumer Project on Technology

James Love is the Director of the Consumer Project on Technology, a non-government organization with offices in Washington, DC, London and Geneva. Information about CPTech is on the web at . An advisor to a number of UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, Mr. Love is US co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, founder and Chairman of Essential Inventions, Chairman of the Union for the Public Domain, Chairman of the Civil Society Coalition, and members of the MSF working groups on Intellectual Property and Research and Development, the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property and the Initative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) Task Force on Intellectual Property. Mr. Love was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a Lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. Mr. Love received a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Panel: Political Economy

Geidy Lung

Word Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Geidy Lung is Senior Legal Officer of the Copyright Law Division of the Copyright and Related Rights Sector of WIPO. Prior to joining WIPO, Ms Lung was legal researcher and taught civil and intellectual property law in the University of los Andes (Venezuela). She practiced as an attorney and was external legal advisor of companies and foundations in the field of science and technology. She was consultant in the Cooperation for Development Bureau of WIPO for Latin America and the Caribbean in the field of copyright. Her responsibilities at the International Bureau relate to WIPO’s activities regarding progressive development of international copyright and related rights, in particular the secretarial tasks for the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and issues related to digital technology, limitations and exceptions to copyright as well as private international law. She has represented WIPO at various international meetings in different regions of the world. Among other responsibilities, she coordinates the external relationships regarding copyright matters with various organizations such as Unesco, IFLA and the World Blind Union. Ms. Lung is lawyer and accountant, and holds a LLM in Intellectual Property.

Panel: Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright

Kate Martin

Director Center for National Security Studies

Kate Martin has been Director of the Center for National Security Studies, in Washington, D.C, since 1992. The Center is the only non-profit organization whose core mission is to prevent claims of national security from eroding civil liberties, human rights or constitutional processes. From 1993 to 1999, Ms. Martin was also co-director of a project on Security Services in a Constitutional Democracy in 12 former communist countries in Europe. Ms. Martin has taught Strategic Intelligence and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law School and also served as general counsel to the National Security Archive, a research library located at George Washington University from 1995 to 2001. Since 1988, she has written, litigated cases and testified before Congress on the entire range of national security and civil liberties issues. She participated in the drafting of the Johannesburg Principles on National Security and Freedom of Expression. Since September 11, 2001, she has testified before Congress concerning the USA Patriot Act and intelligence issues and filed amici briefs challenging government surveillance and the illegal detentions of US citizens as “enemy combatants.” She also served as lead counsel in the lawsuit brought by more than 20 organizations challenging the secret arrests of 1200 people in the wake of September 11. Among her publications are: ‘Enemy Combatants,’ the Constitution and the Administration’s ‘War on Terror’ with Joseph Onek, American Constitution Society, August 2004; Domestic Intelligence and Civil Liberties, SAIS Review of International Affairs, (Winter-Spring 2004); Secret Arrests and Preventive Detention, in Lost Liberties, ed. Brown (New Press 2003); Civil Liberties and National Security on the Internet, in The Information Age Anthology, vol. II: National Security Implications of the Information Age (CCRP 2000) ; and with Paul Hoffman Safeguarding Liberty: National Security, Freedom of Expression and Access to Information: United States of America, in Secrecy and Liberty, ed. Coliver et al. (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1999). Previously Ms Martin was a partner with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Nussbaum, Owen & Webster. She graduated from the University of Virginia Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review, and from Pomona College with a B.A. in Philosophy.

Panel: Limits on A2K

Keith Maskus

Chairman of Economics Department University of Colorado Department of Economics

Keith E. Maskus is Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics, and Chair of the Department of Economics, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He has been a Lead Economist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for International Economics. He has been a visiting senior economist at the U.S. Department of State, a visiting professor at the University of Adelaide, and serves also as a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Health Organization. He was the editor of The World Economy: the Americas. Maskus received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan in 1981. He has written extensively about various aspects of international trade, including empirical testing of trade models and determinants of foreign direct investment. His current research focuses on the international economic aspects of protecting intellectual property rights. He is the author of Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy, published by the Institute for International Economics, and co-editor of International Public Goods and the Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, published by Cambridge University Press.

Panel: Economics of Access to Knowledge

Steve Midgley

Stupski Foundation

As a Program Manager for the Stupski Foundation, Steve is currently developing new philanthropic strategies, using open communities and systems, to improve the way in which public education institutions use and manage their critical data. He also provides consulting in educational data systems and strategic use of data for school districts, state educational organizations and the Foundation itself. Prior to joining the Foundation, he co-founded and served as the Vice-President of Engineering for LoopNet, a successful commercial real estate services company. Steve has also served as the Director of Information Technology for a software applications firm owned by Westlaw, which provided student information systems to law schools nationwide. His educational background is in Anthropology and Archaeology, having received his BA from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992.

Panel: Peer Production and Education

Joel Mokyr

Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History Northwestern University Department of Economics

Joel Mokyr is Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University. He is editor-in-chief of the Princeton University Press Economic History of the Western World, and the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Economic History and served as President of the Economic History Association. His current research is concerned with the understanding of the economic and intellectual roots of technological progress and the growth of useful knowledge in European societies, as well as the impact that industrialization and economic progress have had on economic welfare. He is interested in evolutionary theories of technological change and institutions, and is completing a book entitled Neither Chance nor Necessity, on the evolutionary aspects of technological progress. He is author of The Gifts of Athena Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy (Princeton University Press 2002) and “Long-term Economic Growth and the History of Technology,” in P. Aghion and S. Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth Amsterdam: North-Holland (2004).

Panel: Framing Access to Knowledge

Sisule Musungu

South Centre

Mr. Musungu is the Acting Coordinator Programme on Innovation, Access to Knowledge and Intellectual Property at the South Centre. In this capacity, he is in charge of coordinating the Centre’s research, policy advice and capacity building and training activities on these issues. He is also a co-founder and Joint Editor of the Africa International Trade Review and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Health Action International - Africa (HAI Africa).Mr. Musungu’s main interests are on issues related to innovation, access to knowledge and intellectual property, international trade law and human rights. He has authored many publications and papers on these issues. He has also consulted for, and or acted as an advisor to various UN agencies, international organisations, non-governmental organisations and national governments. He is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and holds a Masters of Laws (LL.M) degree from the University of Pretoria, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree from the University of Nairobi as well as a Post-graduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.Previously, he worked as an associate at the law firm Hamilton, Harrison and Mathews in Nairobi.

Panel: Framing Access to Knowledge

Helen Nissenbaum

Associate Professor, Culture & Communication, Computer Science, Senior Fellow, Information Law Institute, NYU School of Law, New York University

Helen Nissenbaum is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication and Faculty Fellow, Information Law Institute, New York University. Professor Nissenbaum conducts research in the social, ethical, and political dimensions of information and communications technology. At Princeton University, she served as Associate Director of the University Center for Human Values and before that held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. She holds a B.A. with honors from the University of Witwatersand, Johannesburg, an M.A. in Education, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University. Her scholarly publications span the topics of privacy, property rights, electronic publication, accountability, the use of computers in education, and values in the design of computer and information systems. Her research on values in design, security, and privacy have been supported through grants from the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Nissenbaum's books include Emotion and Focus, Computers, Ethics and Social Values (coedited with D.J. Johnson), and Academy and the Internet (co-edited with Monroe Prince) and she is a co-founding editor of the journal, Ethics and Information Technology.

Panel: Framing Access to Knowledge

Eli Noam

Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School

Eli Noam has been Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School since 1976. In 1990, after having served for three years as Commissioner with the New York State Public Service Commission, he returned to Columbia. He is the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. CITI is a university-based research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media. In addition to leading CITI's research activities, Noam initiated the MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications, and Information at the Business School and the Virtual Institute of Information, an independent, web-based research facility.Besides the over 400 articles in economics, legal, communications, and other journals that Professor Noam has written on subjects such as communications, information, public choice, public finance, and general regulation, he has also authored, edited, and co-edited about 25 books.

Panel: Economics of Access to Knowledge

Nnenna Nwakanma

Chairperson of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa - FOSSFA

Nnenna Nwakanma holds a triple Bachelors (in the Social Sciences, History and English and a Masters degree in International Relations and Law. She has done large-scale work within International development organisations and institutions in Africa on Information, Documentation and International Relations. Among them, The Home Health Education Service, The Helen Keller Foundation and The African Development Bank. Co-founder of different pan-African organizations: The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA), The Africa Network of Information Society Actors (ANISA), and the Africa Civil Society for the Information Society (ACSIS). One of the major Civil Society Actors in the World Summit on the Information Society, she represents the African Civil Society on the Digital Solidarity Fund, and advises on the Africa Information Society Initiatiave. Today she is Council Chair of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa. At present she works as a Consultant to governments, Civil Society organizations, business entities and International Development Organizations on various domains of her expertise in African Development:Human Rights, Conflict Management,Gender Mainstreaming and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). She is also the Co-author of Our Side of the Divide; Silenced: Censorship and Control of the Internet; Vision in Process; and The Incommunicado Reader.

Panel: Licensing to Produce A2K

Ruth Okediji

William L. Prosser Professor of Law U of MN Law School

Ruth L. Okediji is the William L. Prosser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is a leading expert on the international intellectual property system. Her research and scholarship focus particularly on development issues in the global economic regulatory framework. Professor Okediji teaches a variety of Intellectual Property classes, including a seminar on International Intellectual Property. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota in 2003, Professor Okediji held the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. In 2002, she was appointed by Governor Frank Keating to the Oklahoma Public Employee Relations Board where she served until she joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota. Professor Okediji is a member of the New York Bar Association, the American Bar Association, Order of the Coif, and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Inn of Court. She is past-Chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and past-Chair of the Section on Law and Computers of same. In addition to numerous articles, book chapters and monographs, Professor Okediji is a coauthor (with Julie Cohen, Lydia Loren, and Maureen O’Rourke) of COPYRIGHT IN A GLOBAL INFORMATION ECONOMY ( Aspen Publishers, 2d ed. 2006). Professor Okediji has served as a consultant to various U.N. agencies, and other international organizations, on projects addressing with the interests of developing countries in the international intellectual property system. She recently completed a definitive and highly regarded study on Limitations and Exceptions in the International Copyright System under the auspices of the UNCTAD-ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development. She holds an LL.B from the University of Jos, and LL.M and S.J. D. degrees from Harvard Law School.

Panel: Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright

Ann Okerson

Associate University Librarian, Yale University Sterling Memorial Library

Since 1996, Ann Okerson has served as Associate University Librarian at Yale University, following assorted academic library and library management experience, several years in the commercial sector, and service as a senior program officer at the Association of Research Libraries. At Yale, she organized the Northeast Research libraries consortium (NERL), a group of 26 large research libraries that negotiates licenses for electronic information and engages in other forms of cooperative activity. Ms. Okerson serves as one of the active, founding spirits of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and an advisor to the Soros eIFL project. Ms. Okerson's activities include numerous projects, publications, advisory boards, and speaking engagements around the world, as well as professional awards. In 1997, with funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources, she and the Yale Library staff mounted an online educational resource about library licensing of electronic content in a project called LIBLICENSE. Its extensive annotations and links are complemented by Liblicense-l, an international, moderated online discussion list frequented by 2700 librarians, publishers and attorneys. In 1998, she secured an additional grant and created Liblicense software that enables the users to generate a customized license using standard language options. In April 2001, the Digital Library Federation endorsed the Project's work on a Model Electronic License for academic research libraries. Other recent activities include being a Principal Investigator on several cutting-edge grants, most recently a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant for building components of a Middle East Virtual Library and foundation grant for improving liberal arts teaching through use of library special collections.

Panel: The Role of Libraries in A2K

Sean O'Siochru

Founder Director and Senior Researcher, specialist in information society telecommunications and media services NEXUS Research

Seán Ó Siochrú is a founder and spokesperson of the CRIS Campaign, and a Director of NEXUS Research, a non-profit research organisation in Ireland. He works extensively with NGOs in media and communication, is a consultant with UNDP, ITU, IFAD, IDRC and other international agencies, and has published numerous articles, chapters and books, including (with Bruce Girard) being Global Media Governance: a Beginners Guide (Rowman & Littlefield 2002) and Communicating in the Information Society (eds also with Bruce Girard) UNRISD 2004. With the Social Science Research Council he wrote the report on Internet and Civil Society Networking (part of ITIC); worked in the WSIS with Civil Society and organised the World Forum on Communication Rights at the first WSIS Summit, and coordinated the Cultural Diversity strand at he G05 Conference in 2005.. Building on his recent UNDP report on Community Driven Networks, he is now coordinating research and community-owned network development project in east Africa and Asia. In Ireland, he is chair and co-founder of Community Media Network and of Dublin Community Television - DCTV.

Panel: Network neutrality in a Developing World

Davinia Ovett

Programme Officer, 3D Three

Davinia Ovett is Programme Officer on Intellectual Property and Human Rights at 3D -> Trade – Human Rights – Equitable Economy. She graduated with an LLB in European Law from the University of Warwick, an LLM in International Business Law from London School of Economics and a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (LPC) from the College of Law, UK. She has worked on human rights issues at Article 19 - the Global Campaign for Free Expression; Interights; the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ); and the International Labour Organization (ILO). Her areas of expertise include international human rights law and mechanisms, international intellectual property law, international economic law, and the law and processes of the World Trade Organization. Recent publications include “Intellectual Property, Development and Human Rights, How Human Rights Can Support Proposals for a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Development Agenda,” Policy Brief 2, 3D -> Trade – Human Rights – Equitable Economy, February 2006; and “Making Trade Policies More Accountable and Human Rights-Consistent, A NGO Perspective of Using Human Rights Instruments in the Case of Access to Medicines,” in Benedek, De Feyter and Marella (eds.), Economic Globalization and Human Rights (forthcoming, 2006).

Panel: Framing Access to Knowledge

Richard Owens

Director, Copyright E-Commerce Technology and Management Division - WIPO

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